PLF for individual animal care

EU Commission Joint Research Centre report on precision agriculture: part 2.

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), relying on automatic monitoring of individual animals, is used for animal growth, milk and egg production and detection of diseases, and to understand the animal’s behaviour and monitor its environment.

Precision livestock farming (PLF) enables attention to each individual animal, and is typically applied to the more intensive husbandry of pigs and poultry, and dairying, according to the EU’s Joint Research Centre.